Punjab govt covering up Amritsar Train Tragedy: Sukhbir Singh Badal. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday launched a scathing attack on Congress-led Punjab government and said that they are on mission to cover-up the Amritsar train accident. Badal said, “Congress senior leaders including ministers are involved in this case. With

Farmers committed suicide due to Punjab govt’s harsh policies: Harsimrat. Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, on Friday accused the Punjab government of implementing harsh policies, due to which around 600 to 700 farmers have committed suicide. Speaking on the issue of stubble burning, the Union Minister said, “The Centre has given

Punjab Govt increases cash prize for medal winners of prestigious tournaments. The Punjab government has approved the enhanced cash awards under the new Sports Policy-2018, thereby increasing the prize money for medal winners of the prestigious tournaments like Olympics, Asian Games, and Commonwealth Games. Under the new policy, the cash prize of the gold medal

Narinder Jagga Punjab Govt. allots office to Bhattal in Civil Secretariat ignoring rules. After great pressure, the Punjab Civil Secretariat Administration has allotted a fine office of Minister’s rank in the secretariat to Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, who is vice-chairman of Punjab State Planning Board. Sources in the department told that although she has equal rank

Agitation during teaching times, Punjab Govt. suspend six leaders . The Punjab Govt. has decided to tackle with suspension to the leaders of teachers ‘Union, who prefer to lead protest rather than teaching in the Schools. The Government has started its beginning from the home town of Education Minister, Amritsar. Six Union leaders have been

Narinder Jagga Chandigarh: Series of protests have compelled the Government to accept the demands of Aaganwadi workers and Helpers. The Government has decided to increased remuneration of approximately 54,000 workers and helper Rs 1000 and 500 per month, respectively, which will have financial burden of Rs 48 crore annually on the state exchequer , but

Narinder Jagga Chandigarh: The Punjab Congress election manifesto, page number 24-25 says that under the ‘Ghar Ghar rozgar’ unless the job is not given, all identified unemployed would be ab unemployment allowance of Rs 2500 per month. But even after the passing of 15 months, the Government could able to find only 192 unemployed youths

Punjab Govt. withdraws cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur’s DSP rank. The Government of Punjab has withdrawn the DSP post from the India women’s T20 team captain Harmanpreet Kaur. According to sources, the Punjab Govt. took this decision after the graduation degree of Harmanpreet Kaur was found to be fake according to police officials, the police department said in

Punjab Govt. to again pass bill to regularise Contractual employees. To regularise the 27,000 contractual employees, the Punjab Government to amend act or will bring new bill in this regard. Such act, The Punjab Adhoc, contractual, Daily wage, Temporary, Work charged an outsourced Employees’ welfare bill, 2016 was passed in Special Session on December 2016,

600 new buses to be added in 2 months time : Punjab Govt. Punjab Transport Minister Aruna Chaudhary today said the government will add 600 new buses to its existing fleet in the next two months. The minister asked the transport department to provide better transportation facilities to the people to strengthen the transport sector

Punjab Government suspends public transport, mobile internet services due to bandh . Punjab Government suspends services of public transport tomorrow (April 2) due to bandh called by several Dalit organisations against the amendment under the SC/ST Act. All educational institutions to remain closed and mobile Internet services to be suspended in the state tomorrow. Punjab

After all, the barricades have been lifted on the way of post matric scholarship as the Punjab Government has decided to release Rs 94 crore grants. In the first phase, the government’s institutions would be allocated the grants and later to those private institutions, who have been found clean in audit survey. The alleged scholarship

A joint delegation of SAD-BJP legislator party met Governor V.P. Singh Badnore under the leadership of Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal. Delegation demanded to dismiss the present Captain Amarinder Singh led Govt and also levelled allegations on govt of commiting fraud and joking with farmers on the name of loan waiver.After meeting with

The Chandigarh as well as Jalandhar Press Club (CPC) condemned the action of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for lodging an FIR against Tribune reporter over story on Aadhar data breach.“Instead of taking action against people, who were involved in data breach, the Government Agency preferred to lodge FIR against reporter, who exposes the

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Congress government was playing with the lives of Punjab farmers by proposing to implement a fraudulent crop loan waiver which left out genuine beneficiaries and demanded it be scrapped and replaced with a comprehensive waiver covering all indebted farmers.In a statement here, the SAD

Congress leader Dr Rajkumar on Sunday met the family of martyr Gurmail Singh at his residence. He announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh to family and Rs 2 lakh for martyr’s wife.Moreover he also assured to give a government job to one of the family members of martyr on the behalf of Punjab Govt. Lance

The Punjab Govt issued notification issuing instructions for creating a smooth passage for school buses and ambulances during any political or social demonstrations or protests. Government of Punjab vide its notification constituted Punjab State Commission for Protection of Child Rights u/s 17 of commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005-an Act of Govt. of

Jaswinder Kaur wants justice from Punjab Govt. Vice President of SAD Jaswinder Kaur wants justice from the Punjab Govt. Recently, 7 persons, including a woman, attacked on Jaswinder Kaur. The case has been registered but she wants fair justice in her case . Her gold accessories are missing and not have been found by police till

Punjab’s Former CM Parkash Singh Badal celebrated his 90th birthday today by cutting the cake with Akali workers and leaders and former CM also took the blessings of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji on his birthday. Former CM has invited all residents of his native village for his birthday. He has invited them for lunch and

After the protests at Harike Patan by Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal against police cases registered against the Akali workers yesterday, SAD workers jammed roads of various places in Punjab.Senior leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bhartiya Janta Party staged protest on Friday at various places of Punjab. Under the leadership of former Deputy Chief